• 05​ 09​ 2015 •How to Think (Against) the War

The war between Russia and Ukraine is brought home through the media daily, but still, Donbass is far away. People are all too willing to listen to propaganda, easily siding with the heroic
Ukraine standing up for European values or with Putin standing up to the Americans. Aside from the fact that disinformation far outweighs balanced reporting, there is a breathtaking lack of intellectual and cultural tools to oppose the rise of nationalism and revisionism, and a lack of spaces or platforms from which to suggest analytical and imaginative alternatives to what seems like an insoluble impasse. Our goal is to create such a temporary space where we might search for the right language against the war, however naive that sounds. In a daylong symposium, artists and intellectuals from Ukraine, Russia and Germany illuminate the realities and backgrounds of the present conflict through eyewitness accounts, commentary and heated disputes.